Life on the Mississippi.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883. 8vo (229 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and over 300 in-text illustrations. Contemporary half-brown morocco boards from library edition with modern rebacking, marbled pastedowns, all edges marbled. Condition: small discolor to title, light dampstain to lower margin, rear pages with slight tear and crease; rebacked, boards rubbed. first edition, first state of twain's classic. With the following points: Frontispiece engraving entitled 'The "Baton Rouge"; illustration of Twain rising out an urn on pg. 441 that he found morbid; caption reading "The St. Louis Hotel" on pg. 443. BAL 3411.
Life on the Mississippi.
Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883. 8vo (229 x 165 mm). Frontispiece and over 300 in-text illustrations. Contemporary half-brown morocco boards from library edition with modern rebacking, marbled pastedowns, all edges marbled. Condition: small discolor to title, light dampstain to lower margin, rear pages with slight tear and crease; rebacked, boards rubbed. first edition, first state of twain's classic. With the following points: Frontispiece engraving entitled 'The "Baton Rouge"; illustration of Twain rising out an urn on pg. 441 that he found morbid; caption reading "The St. Louis Hotel" on pg. 443. BAL 3411.
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